Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderNewport Beach Fire Department
Newport Beach, CA · Orange County. Newport Beach Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 8 stations and 145 total personnel. The department also provides EMS services. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 145
- Total personnel
- 8
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Newport Beach Fire Department pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the California average.
- Top 2%
- national personnel size
- +292%
- vs. California average
- 8
- stations
- $800,035
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
National percentile ranks this department's personnel headcount against every listable U.S. department with reported staffing; the state comparison uses the same personnel figure against its own state's average. Both feed the verdict sentence and the chips above.
A staffing, equipment, EMS-integration, and federal-grant-funding composite benchmarked against every other USFA-registered department nationally, not a safety rating, response-time measure, or comparison of fire risk. Dimensions with no data on file are excluded and their weight redistributed, never counted as zero.
Newport Beach Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Newport Beach, CA (Orange County), with 8 stations and 145 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #446 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $800,035.
- National personnel rank #446 of 22,440
- CA personnel rank #39 of 721
- 5.52 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 16 other listed departments in Orange County
Newport Beach Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
145 Top 2% higher than 98% of 22,440 departments
Listable U.S. fire departments, banded by total personnel
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Source HIFLD fire-station registry · 2026-09-06
Dispatch plate
Sheet 30055 · Newport Beach Fire Department, CA 145 personnel · 8 stations
PERS-MID · STA-MULTI · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 145
- STA-MULTI 8 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #446
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ West Chester Town…
- FEMA-MID $800K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: West Chester Township Fire Department, OH (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid HIFLD roster counts, station rows, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer, and FEMA AFG/SAFER book for this FDID, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every CA department.
- Newport Beach (this dept) 145
- High Overland Park, KS 145
- Near West Chester Town…, OH 145
- Near Liberty Joint Fir…, NY 145
- Near Clinton Volunteer, CT 145
Department Profile
- Type
- PAID
- Location
- Newport Beach, CA
- County
- Orange County
- FDID
- 30055
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | EMW-2020-FG-13591 | $274,900 |
| 2018 | EMW-2018-FO-03737 | $525,135 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the California average
How Newport Beach Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #39 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #446 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 8
- State fire deaths/yr
- 346
- CA departments
- 1,309
County roster fringe
Newport Beach Fire Department is 4.9% of Orange County roster mass
The county lists 27 departments totaling 2,970 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 81% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.52 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (8 stations / 145 roster).
Photo-finish peer: West Chester Township Fire Department, OH (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 145 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CA department.